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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. I've argued that many training organizations and eLearning companies look and act like publishers. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Informal learning is effective because it is personal. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. To create intellectual capital it can use, a company needs to foster teamwork, communities of practice, and other social forms of learning.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later.